Ontario in recent years has continued to pull Hollywood film and TV shoots across the border, despite a strong Canadian dollar and competition from rival locales like Louisiana and New Mexico.

And there are recent signs that Ontario's 25 percent all-spend film tax credit, combined with a Canadian dollar falling in value compared to the American dollar, is juicing Hollywood production in Ontario even further, especially during the current TV pilot season.

But the OMDC's latest production tally also reveals the province saw overall foreign-film budgets fall in 2013, despite the number of Hollywood feature films shooting in Toronto rising, owing to a lack of blockbuster movies shooting in the province last year.

Total budgets for foreign movies shooting in Ontario fell to CAN$97.7 million (US$88 million) last year, against expenditures of CAN$106.3 million (US$95.8 million) in 2012, as Hollywood studios choose to slim down in the wake of big-budget movie flops.

That slippage was offset by overall spending domestic feature films rising to CAN$134.1 million (US$120.8 million) in 2013, compared to a year-earlier total budgetary spend of CAN$123.1 million (US$110.9 million) by local movie producers.